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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
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publicans claim a proposed
1am closing time would
lead to increased violence and
drink driving, but the police are
not convinced.
Selwyn District Council has
been developing a new draft local
alcohol policy that will guide the
hours, location and conditions for
places that sell alcohol.
Submission hearings were held
last Tuesday, with many pub-
licans opposing the proposed
change to 1am closing for all
taverns and hotels -- most hold a
licence to trade until 3am.
Several said they are were not
often open until 3am, but the
change was not necessary and
would cause more problems than
it would be worth.
Ray O'Connell, of Darfield
Hotel, said on occasions he would
have a band play until about 1am.
Crowds would reach upwards of
150 patrons on a busy night.
Once the band stopped, patrons
would generally filter away, with
many leaving in the hotel's cour-
tesy van as it became available,
but under the earlier close,
things would be different, Mr
O'Connell said.
If you dump everyone out on
the street, anything could go
wrong,'' he said
He said there was a much
greater chance of patrons being
tempted into drink driving if they
had nowhere to go and no way of
getting there at 1am -- especially
in Selwyn, where there was mini-
mal public transport at that time
of the morning.
He said tensions could also flare
when people had been drinking.
And that's where most of the
problems are going to occur.
If you get two different factions
of people who have been drinking,
in an unsupervised environment,
anything can happen.''
The Prebbleton Tavern's Marie
Gilmore highlighted a British
report on drinking and public dis-
order in her submission.
It suggested if all the bars clo-
sed at a uniform time, it led to an
increased likelihood of conflict and
violence, transport issues, and
made policing more difficult.
Ms Gilmore said a 1am close or
one-way door policy made no
sense for Selwyn.
However, police statistics show
that the expected rate of offences
associated with licensed premises
closing between 2am and 3am was
4.2 times the rate associated with
closing at 1am or earlier.
Malcolm Bennett from Colgate
Tavern was also critical of the
proposed early close and believed
that it would be very damaging to
his business.
He said he was only busy four
months of the year and needed to
make the most of it.
During the busy season, he had
holidaymakers and shift workers
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